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January 19, 2007, 01:59 PM ET
Google Scores a Library in the Lone Star State
Google has bagged yet another partner in its effort to digitize academic libraries across the globe: The University of Texas at Austin has agreed to put at least one million volumes from its collection online, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
The books set to be scanned include a number of titles from the university's celebrated archive on Latin American history and culture. "The best collections of information are only as useful as the quality of the tools available for discovering and accessing that information," said Fred Heath, vice provost and director of libraries at Austin, in a news release. "Joining with Google's Book Search program will mean that the intellectual content of our collections are discoverable by a much wider range of scholars and students."
Texas is the 10th institution to sign on with Google's book-scanning project, and the third major university to do so in the last several months: Both the University of Virginia and the University of Wisconsin at Madison started digitizing books for Google late last year. --Brock Read
Categories: Search-Engines, Libraries
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